Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/BattyBot 59

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Approved.

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Operator: GoingBatty (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 20:47, Thursday, July 1, 2021 (UTC)

Function overview: Remove line breaks in citation templates that cause templates to not display properly

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): AutoWikiBrowser

Source code available: AWB

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos#Cite web

Edit period(s): Monthly

Estimated number of pages affected: 200

Namespace(s): Mainspace

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No):

Function details: Search the database dump for citation templates such as (\{\{\s*[Cc]ite)\s*\n\s*(book|journal|news|web|GovTrack) and remove the line break by replacing them with $1 $2 like this. The bot will also perform AWB's general fixes when making an edit. GoingBatty (talk) 20:47, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Mainly out of curiosity, how much of a recurring issue is this? At the moment 200 pages would be trivial for a user to do manually, and if the number is only "a handful" then it should be easy to maintain. Of course, if it's 200 per month that changes the metrics a bit. Primefac (talk) 22:29, 1 July 2021 (UTC) (please do not ping on reply)[reply]

Could you please suggest a way to track how many per month? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:11, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No idea, other than clearing out the list and seeing how it progresses along in a month. Primefac (talk) 23:34, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Out of curiosity, is this (and other bot tasks) set to automatically run once a month, or do you trigger them manually once a month? – SD0001 (talk) 08:09, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@SD0001: All of my bot tasks are triggered manually. GoingBatty (talk) 19:39, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (25 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. Looks mostly harmless given the low volume of edits. – SD0001 (talk) 07:20, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@SD0001:

Trial complete. See these 25 edits. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 01:53, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In Special:Diff/1031851773, the gen fixes appear to have defined <ref name="ReferenceA"> 3 times, rather than define once and reuse. Surely this shouldn't be happening?
In Special:Diff/1031850630 near the bottom, url- and status= are on different lines, so there's a still a problem though not necessarily something this task should fix.
Looks fine otherwise. – SD0001 (talk) 05:28, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T286160
Resolved

@SD0001: I opened an AWB bug report for the <ref name="ReferenceA"> issue.

I agree that the bot should not have fixed the url- and status= issue, and I fixed it manually.

Thanks for your review! GoingBatty (talk) 18:09, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@SD0001: I received a response from the AWB developers about the named references. Named references are not condensed if the first declaration is in a template call, because we cannot be sure the template will display all of its parameters (and hence the reference) and do not want to create an undefined reference error. I have updated the AWB documentation at WP:DUPCITE accordingly. GoingBatty (talk) 16:48, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. Fair enough. – SD0001 (talk) 17:30, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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